Essays

Courage is a need, needed by all who happen to read the Yi, in a moment, in a lifetime.

Reading a person's life and death is not really hard: it always rests on the Target line, and only the Target line.

The Hostile line is the one that controls the Source line, and the Target line controls the Hostile line. A tree needs water; the Hostile line is the dam.

The Yi is not hard: so many formulas, so many concepts. But reading a hexagram is hard, very hard, above all face to face between people.

The core, or the core vector, of Six Lines is the principle running through it all: “where it is faulty, mend it there”.

The principle by which the Yi predicts the future lies in no power at all, but corresponds by chance to the “vein”, and the overlap lies in space.

On the day it began with the Yi I had no notion at all of East Asian philosophy; it was only a preface in a second-hand book that led to this very day.

The Yi is for prediction, but the most important part is always risk management. The Yi is like the last insurance of a person's life.

A life is not random: a life holds a tendency from the moment a person is born, decided from when the child first meets the light.

The result of the beginning is the Yi. Before going deeper, remember two things: do not live someone else's life, and do not deceive yourself.